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We find the living brachiopoda so rare as to form about one forty-fourth of the whole bivalve fauna, whereas in the Lower Silurian rocks of which we are now about to treat, and where the brachiopoda reach their maximum, they are represented by more than twice as many species as the Lamellibranchiate bivalves. There is a capacious ball-room, ninety feet by thirty, with a fine band of music,--a ten-pin alley,--romantic walks and carriage-drives in all directions, rendered easy of access by the fine road recently finished. It will be obvious that, given two equal quantities of different latices, different amounts of an anti-coagulant may be required to produce the same effect. Nova Scotia Coal-measures with successive Growths of erect fossil Trees. Some of my friends went to the cave a few weeks after my visit, and found that the whole sheet had been pared off and carried away. There is also reason to believe that the higher animals were much more abundant in species during past geological epochs than now, owing to the greater equability of the climate which rendered even the arctic regions as habitable as the temperate zones are in our time. She was the only daughter of a City magnate, so his pecuniary difficulties, such as they were (they were never very troublesome to him), came to an end. However, these facts are best illustrated in animals, and the extent of the variation, as is well known, is very remarkable in dogs.